27 West 55th Street: Review and Ratings
between Fifth Avenue & Avenue of the Americas View Full Building Profile
This handsome, brown-brick residential building was erected in 1924 and converted to a cooperative in 1949.
The 10-story building has about 35 apartments.
For many years, it was just a few doors down from the very famous La Caravelle Restaurant at 33 West 55th Street, which closed in 2004.
It has a prime central midtown location that is convenient to many fine hotels and stores and churches and the Museum of Modern Art.
The building has fireplaces and a canopied entrance flanked by limestone columns and lighting sconces. It also has windowed kitchens and windowed baths and is pet friendly.
The façade has 2 small iron balconies on the fourth, 2 on the sixth floor and 4 on the eighth floor.
The building has a part-time doorman, a live-in superintendent, basement storage, a cornice and a bandcourse above the second floor.
There is no sidewalk landscaping, no garage and no roof deck and it permits protruding air-conditioners.
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